Would you say that the sentiment behind Esperanto is a laudable one
No, wrongheaded as hell.
Imperfections and peculiarities only seem so if you don't understand their historical basis. It's fun to discover the reason behind odd phrases or bizarre conjugations. Marble with no veins is boring.
Efficiency is not paramount in communication. Name a written work or speech that's celebrated for its efficient conveyance of ideas. Who's gonna write poetry in Esperanto?
Languages evolve with their culture. Within your language, your accent, speech patterns, and cadence comment on your regional influences. The linguists who tried to fob off an invented language on the world had their heads so far up the theoretical ass that they missed what we all know. No one decides to learn French but hates France and French culture.
But I wish it had taken hold, just to see their conniptions when local influences began to have their way with their perfect little creation.
Faakin preceding every third noun in Boston.
The Yall plural informal verb tense across the South. They'd be shitting perfectly dimensioned little bricks.
